Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Disinterestedness and denial of the particular: Locke, Adam Smith, and the subject of aesthetics
- 2 The beginnings of “aesthetics” and the Leibnizian conception of sensation
- 3 Of the scandal of taste: social privilege as nature in the aesthetic theories of Hume and Kant
- 4 Why did Kant call taste a “common sense”?
- 5 Art and money
- 6 “Art” as a weapon in cultural politics: rereading Schiller's Aesthetic Letters
- 7 Thinking about genius in the eighteenth century
- 8 Creation, aesthetics, market: origins of the modern concept of art
- Index
Frontmatter
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Disinterestedness and denial of the particular: Locke, Adam Smith, and the subject of aesthetics
- 2 The beginnings of “aesthetics” and the Leibnizian conception of sensation
- 3 Of the scandal of taste: social privilege as nature in the aesthetic theories of Hume and Kant
- 4 Why did Kant call taste a “common sense”?
- 5 Art and money
- 6 “Art” as a weapon in cultural politics: rereading Schiller's Aesthetic Letters
- 7 Thinking about genius in the eighteenth century
- 8 Creation, aesthetics, market: origins of the modern concept of art
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993